Why is there a 10-post minimum before starting a thread?

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1. First: Welcome! Enjoy this site.

And, welcome back to the US. Hope you had good barbies and ate your fill of biquies and that marmite stuff.

The 10 posts minimum is to help fight the trolling population. They seem to enjoy dropping some jaw droppingly ridiculous right wing less-than-factual, i.e. lying, talking point they pulled out of their favorite echo chamber.

They generally like to post and run. (Heaven forbid they should read and learn something from a differing point of view.) And, they would love to bombard with post after post to gleefully revel seeing their work in print.

So, ten posts give us a chance to check them out before they can get their name posted on the home page 16 times with the same article.

Glad to see you made it. Don't be shy, because if you are, you're in good company around here.

Oh, there are still trolls on this site. Don't let them get you down. The good still way outweighs the bad.

Enjoy!